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Analysis, Gaza Escalation: Netanyahu and Lieberman Are Talking Israel Into a Corner

The Israeli military, relentlessly and methodically, is driving people out of the 3-kilometer (1.8 mile) buffer zone it says it needs to protect against Hamas rockets and tunnels. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the buffer zone eats up about 44 percent of Gaza’s territory.

War propaganda! Hamas is a creation of Israel and works for the Israeli ShinBet/Mossad. Hamas has agreed to move Palestinians into the Sinai desert. See bottom of post. The plan by Zionist ‘666’ Israel, the Satanic counterfeit, is to drive Palestinians into the Sinai desert via war!
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Analysis, Gaza Escalation: Netanyahu and Lieberman Are Talking Israel Into a Cornerby Zvi Bar’el, https://www.haaretz.com/Balance of threats contradicts working assumption that neither Israel nor Hamas wants war–“If these attacks don’t stop, then we’ll stop them. Israel will act with great force,” vowed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, after conducting a security assessment in the south with senior defense officials. “We’ve exhausted all the possibilities. We have to deal a harsh blowto Hamas,” added Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman.–In the film “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” the character Tuco, played by Eli Wallach, famously said, “When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.” The cast and crew of the film reportedly burst out laughing at Wallach’s brilliant improvised line. But Wallach later said that he thought it sounded pretty sensible; he didn’t mean it as a joke. That is not the case when it comes to Israel’s leaders.–The working assumption that has accompanied the confrontations with Hamas and the other groups in Gaza ever since the marches of return began over six months ago is that Israel and Hamas aren’t interested in war. Both sides want an “arrangement,” that is, a long-term cease-fire whose terms are known. Israel will allow the economic rehabilitation of Gaza (not just infusions of humanitarian aid) that will include the construction of a port and industrial zones in Egyptian territory. Hamas, in turn, will commit to stopping the marches and the incendiary balloons and will abandon the armed struggle against Israel.–“No side is interested in war,” said Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza, in an interview he gave indirectly to Yedioth Ahronoth. “War isn’t good for anyone.” Sinwar’s words didn’t seem to impress Israel’s leaders much, especially given the continued demonstrations at the border fence, the balloons and the rocket launched early Wednesday morning at Be’er Sheva.